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My wife drove a 2002 Honda Insight for 2 years. She never did understand the "window override" switch on the dashboard that disables the power windows in the do
by h2odragon 4y ago
My wife drove a 2002 Honda Insight for 2 years. She never did understand the "window override" switch on the dashboard that disables the power windows in the doors. She taped plastic over one side for a week the first time she hit that button and the windows stopped working. She took it to the mechanic a couple times "the windows stopped working again" because the switch on the dash was easy to frob by accident.
Why was that switch there in the first place? Being familiar with the car didn't help her remember it existed, even when she encountered the "windows wont move" problem repeatedly. Assuming you want a "stop the windows working" switch, why put it up in the corner of the dashboard and in a form where it's easy to hit accidentally and hard to tell that it's not in the right position?
The problem is deeper than screens and older than "legally required backup cameras;" the ergonomics of the car interior became secondary to "but marketing says people want feature $X" checklists.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoGenuinely curious, how does she hit a button on the dashboard by accident? To me, the dashboard is behind the steering wheel and shielded from accidental presses.
- h2odragon 4y agoIts up in the top left corner by the vent, and its a rocker switch. Quite easy to hit without noticing on entering or exiting the car, it got me several times too. It gets others, too: https://www.insightcentral.net/threads/passenger-window-stuck-down.22989/ https://www.insightcentral.net/threads/passenger-window-stuc...
- DiggyJohnson 4y ago> by the vent Ahh, that is a high touch area. Thanks for the response, I was worried that my question was a bit blunt.
- jen20 4y agoThe switch typically disables the passenger and rear windows, and is there is that the driver can stop kids or pets controlling the windows. It’s been next to the window controls in every car I’ve ever driven that had electric windows. To verify that a mountain was indeed being made out of a molehill, I checked the manual [1] for the 2002 Insight: page 78 explains this is the case in a single sentence. [1]: https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/OM/AH/AIN0202OM/enu/IN0202OM.PDF https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/OM/AH/AIN0202OM/enu...